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The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation
National Review ^ | 5/22/2018 | ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

Posted on 05/22/2018 6:13:44 PM PDT by bitt

The Trump-Russia investigation did not originate with Carter Page or George Papadopoulos. It originated with the Obama administration. Exactly when is the “late Spring”?

Of all the questions that have been asked about what we’ve called the “Origination Story” of the Trump-Russia investigation, that may be the most important one. It may be the one that tells us when the Obama administration first formed the Trump-Russia “collusion” narrative.

See, it has always been suspicious that the anonymous current and former government officials who leak classified information to their media friends have been unable to coordinate their spin on the start of “Crossfire Hurricane” — the name the FBI eventually gave its Trump-Russia investigation.

The Original Origination Story: Carter Page

First, they told us it was an early July 2016 trip to Moscow by Carter Page, an obscure Trump-campaign adviser.

As we’ve observed, that story became untenable once a connection emerged between the Bureau’s concerns about Page and the Steele dossier. The dossier, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, portrayed Page’s Moscow trip as seminal to a Trump-Russia conspiracy to hack Democratic email accounts and steal the election from Hillary Clinton.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; chalupa; deepstate; investigation; obamagate; russia; spygate; trump; trumpcampaign; trumprussia
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1 posted on 05/22/2018 6:13:44 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

ping!


2 posted on 05/22/2018 6:14:09 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: bitt

Bill Clinton and Lynch met on the tarmac on June 27.


3 posted on 05/22/2018 6:18:29 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: bitt

BTTT


4 posted on 05/22/2018 6:19:22 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: bitt

Seth Rich was murdered July 10.


5 posted on 05/22/2018 6:19:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

Chalupa was hinting at “Russian collusion” as early as January 2016.

Papadopolous started on March 24, 2016 while he was still a newbie on the team trying to push Trump officials to meet with the Russians but was nixed by Manafort, Kubric, Sessions and Sam Clovis.


6 posted on 05/22/2018 6:25:30 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: bitt

If I were writing this screen play, I would begin with the fact that the Obama’s can’t stand the Clinton’s.
The Clinton sycophants can’t stand the Obama sycophants.
That premise is easy to see! It’s obvious.
Old Southern vs. The Chicago Reds.

Bernie is on the side of the Reds, sort of. (He did not even realize that he was being played because he actually though that he was a player.)

The heart and soul of the libs was split between the Clinton faction and the Obama faction but, it had to be kept friendly. The pieces had to remain in play to be picked up and repositioned for supremacy at the end of the drama.

Obama’s team wants to rule the world where the Clintons were really just playing their book in order to skim as much as they could.

The Obama’s could not let HRC win but they couldn’t let her lose. It had to be that she was cheated, but then, ObieOne would step up and save the empire for the dark force.
They wrote Hillary’s swan song as the Clinton’s final battle, all seems lost but then, The Dark Lord’s troopers would wage the comeback battles.

Bernie was positioned to fail but, he would get a participation trophy for playing the foil.

They did not count on Don Solo!!!


7 posted on 05/22/2018 6:43:04 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: bitt

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

For those who don’t get the reference:

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2014/0626/Howard-Baker-the-real-story-of-his-famous-Watergate-question


8 posted on 05/22/2018 6:48:07 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: bitt

Who knows how long the Democrats were planning to infiltrate, spy and sabotage whatever Republican they thought would be trouble,

but the “Russia” thing began when Donald made the JOKE that maybe the Russians could find Hillary’s missing but subpeonad emails.


9 posted on 05/22/2018 6:50:11 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: bitt

Makes sense.


10 posted on 05/22/2018 6:51:35 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: joethedrummer

Too bad Trump didn’t say North Koreans. No one would believe collusion with NK.


11 posted on 05/22/2018 6:55:57 PM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: piasa
For March/April 2016, Sharyl Attkisson's "Collusion Against Trump" timeline, is mainly Ukrainian lobbying against Manafort (starring Alexandra Chalupa).

Sharyl does not mention a crucial NSC meeting in that period as McCarthy does.

McCarthy makes a good case.

12 posted on 05/22/2018 7:03:48 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: outofsalt
"the enemy of my enemy, is my friend"

I think that holds true to form with the Obamaists vs. Clintonistas

13 posted on 05/22/2018 7:09:45 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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To: MUDDOG

Except that McCarthy still gives his friend Comey a pass.


14 posted on 05/22/2018 7:12:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: bitt
In the end, the entire debacle can be laid at the feet of two persons: Bill and Hillary Clinton.
15 posted on 05/22/2018 7:16:33 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

In this article, he cites Comey as briefing the NSC on Carter Page, and then Comey, McCabe and Lynch as meeting to discuss Carter Page, officially dated only as “in the late spring”

McCarthy’s main concern here seems to be in trying to date the origination of the surveillance, rather than passing judgment.


16 posted on 05/22/2018 7:25:51 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: outofsalt

bravo!


17 posted on 05/22/2018 7:46:05 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: joethedrummer

and we have the statements made in the ~ book about her campaign that ‘they turned on a dime on Nov.9th and started the russiarussiarussia’ ...


18 posted on 05/22/2018 7:47:44 PM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: joethedrummer

To me that was a sign that Trump knew all along about all of this! It was peculiar, but I saw the rally he gave and that insinuation did not come out of thin air! The deep state FREAKED OUT as a result, which means to me that he knowingly goaded them into the psychosis they all now espouse!


19 posted on 05/22/2018 7:48:04 PM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: joethedrummer

YUP!

At the time, the Lamestream got a case of the vapors, taking Trump’s words literally and inferring that he was truly asking the Russians to help him find the emails and began excoriating him for doing so.....even though he did no such thing.

Somewhere along the way, that colossal stupidity of the media has been forgotten.


20 posted on 05/22/2018 7:55:58 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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